Wow! Feel the Xian love!

[onager]

Item from James Randi's weekly update:

SMOOTH TALKERS

Fundamentalist Christians are charming folks. One — typical among more than 50 who ranted about my recent articles on the Smithsonian matter — closed his savage message with this:

"The satisfaction of knowing you will burn in hell, for eternity, never fails to bring a smile to my face."

I'll bet that hearing about the tsunami and the thousands of non-Christians who died by it, really turned you on, eh?

Every heathen child who dies is a chuckle for you. Hatred seems very important to you, and you apply it to those who try to get you thinking, I see. As for my going to Hell — capitalized, because it's a proper name of a mythological place! — gee, I'm really scared....

Several of these messages closed with the fatuous assertion that the writer knows that he/she's right — because it's "in The Book." I don't have that easy way out.

The Update has lots of good stuff this week, including Nancy Grace's idiotic defense of "psychic detectives:"


http://www.randi.org/jr/061005smug.html

[beam me up scottie]

1. oooooooooooooooooooo, nice.

All warm and fuzzy now!

[trotsky]

2. How could anyone NOT want to join their loving cult... er, religion? n/t

[immoderate]

3. Randi is a great man!

I'm glad he found the Nancy Grace nonsense. I saw part of that show and was going to write to JREF about it, but it was already listed as a coming attraction.

--IMM